Turkey May Back Finland’s Bid for NATO Membership, Reject Sweden

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey may ratify only Finland’s bid to join NATO, in a move that could delay Sweden from gaining membership.

“Sweden will be shocked when we give a different response to Finland’s bid,” Erdogan said Sunday on state-run TRT.

Turkey has balked at ratifying Sweden’s bid over its hesitance to wage a crackdown on supporters of Kurdish militants. Recent tensions over the display of an upside-down effigy of Erdogan and the burning of a translated copy of the Koran in Stockholm also sparked outrage in Turkey and other Muslim nations.

Sweden and Finland formally applied ...